Tag: 2 Enoch

Chapter 32 After Adam’s sin God sends him away into the earth from where he took him from, but does not wish to ruin him for all years to come 1 I said to him: Earth you are, and into the earth whence I took you you shalt go, and I will not ruin you, but send you whence I took you. 2 Then I can agai...

Chapter 28 The week in which God showed Enoch all his wisdom and power, throughout all the seven days, how he created all the heavenly and earthly forces and all moving things even down to man 1 And then I made firm the heavenly circle, and made that the lower water which is under heaven collect its...

Enoch’s encounter with the two angels of God 1. There was a wise man, a great artificer, and the Lord conceived love for him and received him, that he should behold the uppermost dwellings and be an eye-witness of the wise and great and inconceivable and immutable realm of God Almighty, of the very...

Chapter 43 Enoch shows his children how he measured and wrote out God’s judgments 1 I, my children, measured and wrote out every work and every measure and every righteous judgment. 2 As one year is more honourable than another, so is one man more honourable than another, some for great possessions,...

Chapter 68 Conclusion 1 Enoch was born on the sixth day of the month Tsivan, and lived three hundred and sixty-five years. 2 He was taken up to heaven on the first day of the month Tsivan and remained in heaven sixty days. 3 He wrote all these signs of all creation, which the Lord created, and wrote...

Chapter 60 He who does injury to the soul of another man, does injury to his own soul 1 He who works the killing of a man’s soul, kills his own soul, and kills his own body, and there is no cure for him for all time. 2 He who puts a man in any snare, shall stick in it himself, and there is no cure f...

Chapter 56 Methosalam asks of his father blessing, that he may take Enoch food to eat 1 Mathosalam having answered his father Enoch, said: What is agreeable to your eyes, father, that I may make before your face, that you may bless our dwellings, and your sons, and that your people may be made glori...

Chapter 54 Enoch instructs his sons, that they should hand the books to others also 1 At that time, not understanding this let these books which I have given you be for an inheritance of your peace. 2 Hand them to all who want them, and instruct them, that they may see the Lord’s very great and marv...

Chapter 55 Here Enoch shows his sons, telling them with tears, that the time has approached for him to be taken up into heaven, as the angels are standing before him 1 My children, behold, the day of my term and time have approached. 2 For the angels who shall go with me are standing before me and u...

Chapter 50 Of how none born on earth can remain hidden nor his work remain concealed, but God bids us to be meek, to endure attack and insult, and not to offend widows and orphans 1 I have put every man’s work in writing and none born on earth can remain hidden nor his works remain concealed. 2 I se...

Chapter 13 The angels took Enoch and placed him in the east at the sun’s gates 1 Those men bore me away to the east, and placed me at the sun’s gates, where the sun goes forth according to the regulation of the seasons and the circuit of the months of the whole year, and the number of the hours day ...

Chapter 33 God shows Enoch the age of this world, its existence of seven thousand years, and the eighth thousand is the end, neither years, nor months, nor weeks, nor days 1 And I appointed the eighth day also, that the eighth day should be the first-created after my work, and that the first seven r...